Optimization of Safety in Indian Construction Industry Learning from Expert Survey

The construction industry has been examined as a highly unsafe industry because of more number of deaths caused by many incidents/accidents. The working sites need changes within the nature of labour, the situation of manual labour, and the mixture of skilled and unskilled workers. As the Indian construction industry remains labour-intensive, the correct harmonization between workers, artisan, customers, and workforce is required for a secure labour environment which is considerably lacking. The research has demonstrated the recognition of unsafe working conditions. And so, the underestimation of safety risk may be a widespread problem. Therefore, effective safety administration is the major thing to acknowledge and managing hazards and prioritisation to safety is a must and this will also lead to enhanced success in project accomplishment. The work was initiated by preparing a questionnaire survey among the various persons involved in this work, it paved the way to analyse and estimate their present system of practice happening with respect to safety in the real estate sector in a metro city and to ascertain the quality of output received through the questionnaire and also to quantify the data with statistical analysis. It also helps to identify the relative importance of the data and the influencing factor among the output of the questionnaire. It revealed that psychological factors as the major influencer in the safety of building sectors. It is further helped to optimize the factors influencing safety in the construction industry.